Benjamin Woolley is an author, media journalist and television presenter. [1] In 2018, he published The King's Assassin [2] .
Woolley studied Philosophy & Politics at Durham University, graduating in 1979. [3] Woolley currently teaches English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Woolley presented Games Britannia , [6] a documentary on the painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump for BBC Four, [7] and an episode of The Late Show , Libraries and Civilization. [8] Together with Martyn Ives, David H. Levy, and David Taylor, Woolley won a 1998 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the "Individual Achievement in a Craft, Writer" category for the script of the documentary 3 Minutes to Impact produced by York Films for the Discovery Channel. [9]
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Events from the year 1831 in the United Kingdom.
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